PREVENTIVE MEDICAL SERVICES DO NOT SAVE MONEY
June 30, 2009
Preventive medical care usually adds to overall health care costs, but this does not mean that it is bad. Diagnostic tests showing that no disease is present benefit patients by relieving anxiety and reassuring them of their health. Most of the time, preventive care is like a consumer good that creates benefits in return for a cost. It is not like an investment good that promises a positive economic rate of return, says John C. Goodman, President, CEO and the Kellye Wright Fellow of the National Center for Policy Analysis
